Blogs about Death and graves

This was more than just your average funeral. Brompton cemetery was filled with thousands of mourners. They crammed themselves in as the gun-carriage took the remains of a national hero to his last resting place. …

A Grisly End to a Lancashire Policeman.A grisly end. Sergeant William James Bedwell of the Lancashire Mounted Police had tied his legs together, cut his throat and jumped in the River RIbble -buried at Preston …

Seated under the massive proportions of a handsome mausoleum erected to the memory of a distinguished citizen of Glasgow, we write the notes for this article on the Necropolis, a burying-place beautified by nature and …